The media and entertainment business has not been a frequent target of significant antitrust actions for some time — until these recent antitrust claims involving e-books and digital animation employees.

Copyright law must be brought up to speed with rapidly advancing technology if it is to remain effective. The DMCA has remained unchanged since it became law in 1998, and its protective mechanisms are now beginning to lag.

While Apple has been denied its $2.2 billion damages claim, it could potentially still win an injunction that would prevent the sale of certain Samsung phones in U.S. Markets. Koh will now decide if the infringement of these patents warrants the latter request.

In a 2006 specification document, Google advised manufacturers that “touchscreens will not be supported.” Those familiar with the products in question will note that this document was released a year before the debut of the iPhone.

When a Google recruiter emailed an Apple employee in 2007 about a possible opening, the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs discovered the email and quickly forwarded it to his counterpart at Google, CEO Eric Schmidt.